Cain discusses his next moves

Herman Cain spoke out for the first time about his decision to end his Republican presidential bid, saying reporters continued to “spin and spin and re-spin” allegations of inappropriate behavior, hurting his family and making it impossible for him to continue in the race.

“It never went away. And the other thing was, I saw the pain it was causing my wife and I wasn’t going to let that happen. So it boiled down to family first,” Cain said Thursday in an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity.

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Though he told supporters on Saturday he was “suspending” his campaign, Cain said Thursday that his bid was permanently over.

“There are no plans to re-emerge,” he said.

Cain made the decision without the input of his wife, and before they’d had a face-to-face discussion.

“Before I got home that Friday night, we were going to talk about it. I called her Friday morning and said, ‘Sweetheart, I don’t want this being done to you and the family anymore, I’m going to suspend this campaign,’” he said.

Cain denied any wrong-doing, and said the allegations of sexual harassment and an extramarital affair had come forward because “somebody was so determined to knock me out of the race.”

“I really don’t know who is doing it,” Cain said. “I think it could be coming from both sides of the aisle, but I have no proof of that.”

He also hinted at future legal action against his accusers.

“Without compromising anything my attorney and I are working on, we are not done proving or demonstrating — there will be more,” he said.

Cain says he plans to endorse one of his former GOP rivals, but won’t do so immediately. and that several of his former rivals have sought out his endorsement.

“I’m not going to do that quickly. I’m going to take my time,” he said.

The day Cain abandoned his embattled presidential bid, he launched a website that he said will be a vehicle for his future endeavors. But in the Hannity interview, he hinted that might not be his only plan.

“Well, obviously the doors to radio or TV, both doors are open,” Cain, who previously hosted a conservative talk radio show in Atlanta, said.

Cain’s headed back to Hannity’s show on Monday, to provide analysis of the weekend GOP debate in Sioux City.

As Cain spoke live on Fox, Black Entertainment Television aired a documentary on him titled “The Curious Case for Citizen Cain.”

In the documentary, Cain spoke about his post-2012 legacy.

“My legacy will be, he redefined the debate. He redefined the focus from more of the same to bold solutions going forward,” he said.